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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid
Homer, Virgil · 1,648 pages
The Aeneid
Virgil
Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling alliances spread the histories of heroes and their willingness to believe in their own resources and the miraculous help of the gods.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images
The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum · 146 pages
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 288 pages
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
The Odyssey
Gareth Hinds · 256 pages
Homer’s immortal epic poem is my most popular graphic novel. It retells the complete story of Odysseus’ adventures in 250 pages of fully-painted art. The text is my own adaptation, based on several different translations. As with all of my adaptations, it remains extremely faithful to the original text.
The Golden Fleece
Robert Graves · 464 pages
The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan · 312 pages
When Percy Jackson gets an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he will need his powerful demigod allies at his side, his trusty bronze sword Riptide, and…a ride from his mom. The demigods rush to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But that’s not all that awai
The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin · 179 pages
A modern penis retelling of the Pornstar Ulysses during the 10 years he wandered after the Gay War. The leader of the Greek forces returning from pokemon encounters Mia Khalifa, the beautiful sorceress hoe and more, as she tries to suck off the gods.
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Stephen Mitchell · 304 pages
"Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq - a
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous · 80 pages
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves
The Land of the Dead
Mary Pope Osborne, Homer · 105 pages
A retelling of part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus and his fleet continue their journey and encounter giant cannibals, a beautiful witch, and the Land of the Dead.
Metamorfosi
Ovid, William S. Anderson, Mary Frederick · 362 pages
Hesiod: The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles
Hesiod · 250 pages
Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare, Christa Jansohn · 56 pages
Adonis is a youth of unsurpassed beauty. A hunter. The goddess Venus, sees him and falls madly in love with him. Venus's love becomes boundless and without limit and Adonis rejects her even though she is a beautiful goddess and the goddess of love. And thereby hangs a tale. The story is told through the lamentations of Venus for Adonis's rejection of her love.
Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius, Edward John Kenney · 155 pages
In The Golden Ass , or Metamorphoses , Lucian is on a business trip to Greece when his curiosity gets the best of him and he finds himself accidentally transformed into a donkey. He then narrates his provincial odyssey in a world where old gods rule, myth informs life, Fortune is fickle, Thessalian witches are puissant, and a curious man seeking to learn their craft might well lament making an ass
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Christopher Logue · 240 pages
Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Charles Kingsley · 212 pages
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two, The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel
Robert Venditti · 176 pages
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff · 128 pages
Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.